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China's Family
My brother and sister in law have reached the memorable age of 100 together, 50 each. They invited the whole family of 22 (28, 1 family did not join) people to accompany them on a trip to China. We stayed in the best hotels and ate at the best restaura...
Member: Monique
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Chinese Adventure
We arrived early in Panzhihua, a town straddling a swirling brown river and built in long strips along the steep banks on both sides. We had passed many such towns often with factories belching white fumes into the hazy air. After a quick breakfast ...
Member: Nicky Chick
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Vanguard At China
With one of the music ensembles at my College I got the opportunity to spend about 1 week in South Korea and another 3 weeks in China, playing concerts at churches and schools. I traveled with about 40 or so other students from the school, which I k...
Member: Jesse
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Round the World Trip
I know when you see the pictures of what we are wearing you will think to yourselves where can I get these outfits from? Well, I hate to dissapoint you it is not easy looking this good - Tights and shorts - gifts. boots and coats $90. Looking like comp...
Member: jonathan and bekki
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Round the World Trip 2006/07
We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...
Member: Paul
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Xian and Yangtze
After a month of working back at JP Morgan here in Shanghai during our summer uni holiday, it was time for another break. My mother didn’t quite know what was in store for her when she agreed to come visit in China a week before my dad would join us. J...
Member: Ena and Jules
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China 2005
Have moved to Gong Lan's house - it is the complete opposite of Thomas'! It's on the outskirts of the city, and is alot smaller. There isn't any heating, so have taken to sleeping in two sets of PJ's and a hoodie. Gong Lan's mum is an english teacher a...
Member: Shalini
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China and Tibet 2006
Fried rice and vegetable again. Reluctant hotelier gives hot showers and the rats in the room....
Member: Vernon
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China & Tibet 2005
We're sitting in the nastiest internet cafe (and we use that term loosely) in Chengdu trying not to catch anything from the keyboard, but we walked an hour to get here, so you should be thrilled to get this update... March 12 For the coldest da...
Member: Carla
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China - Xian
This morning we arrived in Xian, after our 17 hour train journey (the longest one we have to do), we headed to our hotel via taxi which is always an interesting experince as we never know if the taxi driver is taking us to the right place. In the after...
Member: Kel and Ness
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China
24 Nov 06 WE'VE ARRIVED IN HANGZHOU - WE LOVE IT HERE! As always the train was spot on time. This time, luckily, the journey was just over two hours. We booked ourselves in a hard seater carriage, which is an experience to board! Loads and loads of...
Member: Charlotte and Dyce
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A Central Asian Extravaganza
The shoplady asked us, 'Why are you in Kazakstan?' We paused. Ask us that for Uzbekistan, we would have said: the people, the architecture, the culture, the history, the atmosphere, the fun, etc etc. But Kazakstan... Admittedly it was the worst sta...
Member: Sarah
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Asia Overland 2006
After more than two months in the Middle Kingdom (Zhong Guo; China) we had visited many, many temples. We had travelled across the north of the country, mostly along and around the Yellow River (Huang He) and most of the temples that we had encountered...
Member: Charis and James
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China bear rescue
Monday 24th September Early start taxi at 6:30am, bag man of hotel bless sleeps on floor in lobby area, I felt bad as I woke him up on leaving but needed to get out of padlocked door and get passport oh and yeah pay too. Traffic jam on way to airport ...
Member: sarah
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Summer 05 - China & Russia
zdravstvuyte!! (that is hello in russian...) Am having a fantastic time in Russia, is a great place. Moscow is really lively and young with a brilliant atmosphere. Have done all the sights there - St Basils cathedral was amazing (the Disney style ...
Member: Claire
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China
. . well, apparently, though really haven't seen very many, which was disappointing, though I got over it. Anyway, this has been a fleeting visit, only 2 days. I did a fantastic 4hr hike along the Great Wall. The weather was gorgeous and the views ...
Member: Lisa
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Exploring The Global Mind in Asia
Shanghai! It's like New York! Pretty classy, yup. I immediately fought for my hotel room. The receptionists always said MAYO. No room. I then stood fast and started taking secretive notes. They would then finally give in. This theater was really old no...
Member: michael
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OUR ODYSSEY
Caught Eurostar to Paris on Friday night. Sat went to market, Notre Dame, Crepes on Champs Elysee, Climbed Eifel tower, Sunday to Montmarte, more food. Moulin Rouge, more food, Eurostar hoem. Amazing weekend....
Member: Julie and Ryan
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RTW with Steph and Dion
Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...
Member: Dion & Steph
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Chris and Lisa World Tour
Follow our travels round the world...
Member: Chris and Lisa
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Gap Year 2004
Me and Deaj organised to take a couple of days off work and head out to the Blue Mountains for a bit of fresh air. James really enjoyed his trips there, so it really had to be done. We shot over on a train to Katoomba, one of the larger towns in th...
Member: Claudio
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china 06
beijing is my least favorite city in china, but i'm here again. i'll have spent 3 weeks here by the end of the summer. that's more time than i've spent anywhere. we arrived at tsinghua at 3pm yesterday. the train ride wasn't so bad...we got sleepe...
Member: Stephanie
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